New WordPress Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Remote Attackers Hack Sites

If for some reason your WordPress-based website has not yet been automatically updated to the latest version 5.1.1, it’s highly recommended to immediately upgrade it before hackers could take advantage of a newly disclosed vulnerability to hack your we… Continue reading New WordPress Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Remote Attackers Hack Sites

F5 Networks Acquires NGINX For $670 Million

One of the most important software companies NGINX, which is also behind the very popular open-source web server of the same name, is being acquired by its rival, F5 Networks, in a deal valued at about $670 million.

While NGINX is not a name that you … Continue reading F5 Networks Acquires NGINX For $670 Million

PCI for SMB: Requirement 10 & 11 – Regularly Monitor and Test Networks

Welcome to the seventh post of a series on understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard–PCI DSS. We want to show how PCI DSS affects anyone going through the compliance process using the PCI SAQ’s (Self Assessment Questio… Continue reading PCI for SMB: Requirement 10 & 11 – Regularly Monitor and Test Networks

How to Add SSL & Move WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS

Moving a WordPress website from HTTP to HTTPS should be a priority for any webmaster. Recent statistics show that over 33% of website administrators across the web use WordPress and many of these websites have still not added an SSL certificate.
Why i… Continue reading How to Add SSL & Move WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS

Hacked Website Trend Report – 2018

We are proud to be releasing our latest Hacked Website Trend Report for 2018.
This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the GoDaddy Security / Sucuri team, which includes the Incident Response Team (IRT) and the Malware Research Team (MRT… Continue reading Hacked Website Trend Report – 2018

Fake Browser Updates Push Ransomware and Bank Malware

Recently we came across a malicious campaign injecting scripts that push fake browser updates onto site visitors.
This is what a typical fake update request looks like:
Users see a message box that says it’s an “Update Center” for yo… Continue reading Fake Browser Updates Push Ransomware and Bank Malware

Google Analytics and Angular in Magento Credit Card Stealing Scripts

Over the last few months, we’ve noticed several credit card-stealing scripts that use variations of the Google Analytics name to make them look less suspicious and evade detection by website owners.
The malicious code is obfuscated and injected … Continue reading Google Analytics and Angular in Magento Credit Card Stealing Scripts

Hackers Actively Exploiting Latest Drupal RCE Flaw Published Last Week

Cybercriminals have actively started exploiting an already patched security vulnerability in the wild to install cryptocurrency miners on vulnerable Drupal websites that have not yet applied patches and are still vulnerable.

Last week, developers of t… Continue reading Hackers Actively Exploiting Latest Drupal RCE Flaw Published Last Week